Mainstream Media Still Stingy About Linking to Blogs?

Felix Salmon at Portfolio.com has sour news for econobloggers. According to Salmon, blogs may have gained more respect over the past year among mainstream media publishers of economic news and opinion, but they are still not recognized by some as deserving of outbound links.

While I’m not so sure VoxEU is clearly a blog – it seems more like a blog-like aggregator to me – I think Salmon is absolutely right in asserting that mainstream media news sources are still generally reluctant to treat blogs as equally valuable (and linkworthy) disseminators of useful information.

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Thanks for the link. I don’t think VoxEU could reasonably be called an aggregator, though, since the vast majority of its content is unavailable elsewhere. In a world where HuffPo is considered a blog, I think VoxEU must be.